Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

[RaychelSnr]

"Transfer failed" errors single-handedly ruined the Online Dynasty mode in NCAA Football 12.

An online dynasty I participated in died in the middle of our second season because the commissioner could not advance the league without getting an error message. Even the online league I ran eventually got stuck in a bowl week and was blocked from advancing by an unremitting "transfer failed" error.

EA Tiburon could not diagnose these errors properly, and as a result, the company was unable solve them for NCAA Football 12.

The development team claims to have corrected last year's Online Dynasty issues for NCAA Football 13.

Additionally, should any future bugs occur, EA Tiburon has added an "incident identification number," which will tell the developers the exact nature of any errors that are occur in-game.

Knowing exactly what's going wrong should allow the NCAA Football team to produce quicker fixes to any future problems that arise.

Do you think online dynasties will indeed be more stable this year?

[I3RIS3H]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

I honestly believe that this should be expected, not used for excitement.

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Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

I'll believe it when I see it. Hopefully, it is improved.

[SafetyGreen]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

Yeah fixing a bug shouldn't be the #1 feature. Should've been fixed last year.

[Ramminyou]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

I honestly believe that this should be expected, not used for excitement.

Not only that, but - and keep in mind I love the mode - isn't the percentage of people overall who actually use OD pretty small? Maybe this list is meant to be personal, but this doesn't sound like the kind of thing that will be getting the overall fanbase most excited. That said, it's good that it is fixed (if true).

[jfsolo]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

Oh, well 4 or of 5 ain't bad, lol, but seriously, I personally would consider technical stuff like this outside of the purview of things to be excited for in an upcoming game. I guess, however for people who's primary or even sole gaming experience is online, this would have to be something of great importance to them.

[DerekOfferman]

LOL, this the #1 reason to buy the game?

[Apollo1906]

I didn't have any issues in 12 to the degree of most but it was plenty buggy. In no way should this even be something to use as an hype product. Hopefully things will run smoothly this year b/c before 12, I never had an issue

[moylan1234]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

not gonna lie I was hoping #1 would be a revamped teambuilder reveal.

[Tweeg]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

I don't see this as much reason for excitement when previous versions of Online Dynasty seemed to run just fine.

[MrRudy]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

not gonna lie I was hoping #1 would be a revamped teambuilder reveal.

Me too Moylan, me too...

[jfsolo]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

I don't see this as much reason for excitement when previous versions of Online Dynasty seemed to run just fine.

I'm not an online guy, but last year, there were problems up the wazoo. For a lot of folks, the gameplay issues, which weren't that bad, IMO, were made exponentially worse in people's minds, purely because of the online problems.

You look at this game, and a game like NBA 2K12, some people consider that game a complete and total failure, just because of the online issues.

As I said in the other post, I consider this an ancillary issue, but for many people now, it's a core part of their experience, essentially as important as any gameplay issues.

[shaunbot]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

not gonna lie I was hoping #1 would be a revamped teambuilder reveal.

Pretty sure this a OS article and not a EA sports thing but we can dream! I'd love for TeamBuilder to be upgraded.

Also, I know it's not a EA article but jeez. Was the new Passing even mentioned in these? I can't imagine this is even worth mentioning...should be expected and not hyped up. Even on the scale of fixing broken things I'd personally put this behind user option plays being serviceable again (although CPU is another story)

[mercalnd]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

I don't see this as much reason for excitement when previous versions of Online Dynasty seemed to run just fine.

I'm not an online guy, but last year, there were problems up the wazoo. For a lot of folks, the gameplay issues, which weren't that bad, IMO, were made exponentially worse in people's minds, purely because of the online problems.

You look at this game, and a game like NBA 2K12, some people consider that game a complete and total failure, just because of the online issues.

As I said in the other post, I consider this an ancillary issue, but for many people now, it's a core part of their experience, essentially as important as any gameplay issues.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about online dynasty in NCAA 11 and before when he said it was fine in previous versions.

You're right on point about the OD issue skewing people's perception about other issues though. Reading some of the comments around here you'd think the mode has never worked in any edition of the game and it would be a huge surprise if it turns out to work this year.

That being said, I totally understand people's frustration about this issue. I think the term game killer gets thrown around entirely too much but this issue fits the real meaning of the term for anyone who buys this game to play OD.

[Skull]

Re: Five Reasons to Be Excited for NCAA 13: #1 Improved Online Dynasty Stability

what a list, making excuses for EA's failures (they added logging this year! WOW!)
let's see in NCAA 11, i couldn't recruit or change my depth chart from week 2 onwards because my dynasty would crash

in NCAA 12, after the 3rd patch, my dynasty would crash after a while (deleting the patch, and loading the dynasty worked, then i could save and load it with patch #3, and then eventually the SAME thing would happen)

so maybe really, despite all of EA's failings with adding features this year, maybe they have a playable game? maybe?